ElasticSearch and Kibana are two great products to use in your solution. They provide various values to a solution. If you don’t know ElasticSearch and Kibana then I recommend you read more about these technologies or follow me to get more insight on them.

Prerequisites

• dotNet Core 2.0 SDK
• ASP.Net Core 2.0
• Docker Community Edition

Create new project folder

Open a command prompt and run the following commands:

mkdir aspnet.kibana
cd aspnet.kibana

Create new ASP.Net Core project

In the command line create a new ASP.Net Core web application.

dotnet new mvc

The following additional packages are needed to log information to ElasticSearch using Serilog.

dotnet add package Serilog -v 2.5.0
dotnet add package Serilog.Extensions.Logging -v 2.0.2
dotnet add package Serilog.Sinks.ElasticSearch -v 5.4.0 …

Introduction

When you create a provider add-in you need to create a client ID and client secret in SharePoint. In SharePoint, you will access the page appregnew.aspx in a site.

https://contoso.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx

By default, the client secret that is generated for you is valid for one year only. The client secret must be renewed otherwise the application will stop working. I will describe the steps required to renew the client secret and make the client secret valid for three years.

Prerequisites

To create a new client secret, you must delete the old keys before generating a new client secret. The best approach is to perform these actions using PowerShell. …

Have you ever heard of TOGAF and never really understood it? In my TOGAF 9.1 series of articles, I will give you summary points what TOGAF is and what you will learn in TOGAF.

I have written the TOGAF exam a while back. I thought that writing this series will let me review the TOGAF content and believe that it would be valuable to others. It is always a good practice to regularly review the contents of a topic that you have learned.

I’m not going to rewrite the official TOGAF books content in my article series. Some sections will only contain bullet points of key terms used in TOGAF. …

This article was originally published on my old blog.

Protecting and securing your business information is critical to your business survival and this article shows you how to do that in Office 365. What do you do to protect your organization from leaking or exposing private personal information and complying with governments’ laws?

Most people don’t have an answer or rely on an external audit company to ensure the organization complies with applicable laws, but they have no visibility on what and how information is shared across the organization.

Microsoft Office 365 platform provides security, compliance, and privacy capabilities. Some of the capabilities are built-in and other capabilities the customer can control. This article focuses on the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) compliance capability in Office 365 that the customer can control. …

This article was originally published on my old blog.

This article is more a personal note on standard git commands that I regularly use or sometimes forget. It might be useful to you in your source control flow with git. If you want to know about more git commands checkout gitready.com

Local branches

Create local branch

git checkout -b newfeature

Delete local branch

git branch -d newfeature

Merge branches (newfeature branch into master branch)

git checkout master  
git merge newfeature

Switch to specific branch

git checkout newfeature

List all branches (remote and local branches)

git branch -a

Remote branches

Create remote branch (origin being the remote git host…

This article was originally published on my old blog.

Introduction

If you never heard or used the curl command line tool then this post is for you. This post will teach you some basic curl commands. I recommend that you read the official site for more details: http://curl.haxx.se/

Curl Setup

1. Download curl zip
2. Extract the contents (if you have downloaded the correct version you should find curl.exe)
3. Place curl.exe in a folder where you keep your software (e.g. D:\software\curl\curl.exe)

To run curl from the command line

a) Right-hand click on “My Computer” icon

b) Select Properties

c) Click ‘Advanced system settings’ link

d) Go to tab [Advanced] — ‘Environment Variables’…

This article was originally published on my old blog.

If you have not heard of Docker yet, then this will help you understand what it is and how to use Docker effectively.

What is Docker?

Here is the definition of the Docker site:

Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries — anything you can install on a server. This guarantees that it will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is running in.

Learn more here: https://www.docker.com/what-docker

Setup Docker

Docker provides an easy setup package to get you started fast. Just follow the following instructions depending on you operating system. …

This article was originally published on my old blog.

Introduction

If you work in a business where there is a complex environment of business processes and information systems it can become very difficult to get a good understanding of what is going on in the business. This could lead to wasting money inside the business and not effectively execution of business processes in the business environment.

Enter the APQC Process Classification Framework. This process classification framework assists you to align your business process to industry best practices and benchmark your business processes. …